Samsung M3 1TB External Hard Drive (blue light question)

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
S

synnchan

Honorable
Feb 24, 2013
44
0
10,530
I have two Samsung M3 1TB external HDD's, and I leave both connected to my laptop through a USB hub 3.0. Sometimes their blue light turn off automatically if they're left unused for a while. But sometimes the blue light keeps turned on even though I'm not doing anything with them.

What is normal: for the blue light be turned on or off? Will they wear out if the light keeps turned on?
 
Solution
D_Know_WD
Hi there synnchan,

You can use some third party tool that will show you what is accessing the drive. There are quite a lot of threads on that in the forum.
In case a drive is constantly reading/writing, It is normal that it wear out faster. Yet, my guess is that yours just stay idle.
I don't think that you should really worry about that.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
Sort by date Sort by votes
D_Know_WD

D_Know_WD

Judicious
Jul 30, 2014
6,633
3
35,960
Hi there synnchan,

You can use some third party tool that will show you what is accessing the drive. There are quite a lot of threads on that in the forum.
In case a drive is constantly reading/writing, It is normal that it wear out faster. Yet, my guess is that yours just stay idle.
I don't think that you should really worry about that.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom